Access to Movie Theaters for Patrons who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind or Visually Impaired in Illinois: 2011

Access to Movie Theaters for Patrons who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Blind or Visually Impaired
Rear Window® Captioning and DVS Theatrical®, developed by The Media Access Group at Boston public broadcaster WGBH, make theaters accessible to audiences with disabilities the day and date films debut, and during regular showtimes.

Rear Window Captioning enables movie fans with hearing loss to enjoy a film via reflected captions that appear on a plexiglas panel at the seat. Patrons sitting in the surrounding seats cannot see the captions. DVS Theatrical presents concise narration of visual cues, including scenery, facial expressions and silent movement of characters, through a FM or infrared system delivered to headsets. There is no additional charge to use the systems.

These unique access technologies are installed in theaters nationwide and in Canada.

A list of theaters equipped with these systems and their voice phone numbers appear below.

For many years, WGBH's Media Access Group provided detailed theater location, weekly film and showtime information for closed captioned and described films in the US and Canada. Detailed film and showtime information can now be obtained directly from theaters equipped with MoPix technology.

For more information about access efforts, as well as a list of films scheduled to be released in the coming weeks and months with closed captioning and description, please contact the Media Access Group at access@wgbh.org, or visit the MoPix Web site. http://ncam.wgbh.org/mopix/nowshowing.html

Please use this as a guide as more theaters (hopefully) will continue to update there systems to be user friendly for people with disabilities.

In Illinois

Theater:

*AMC Cantera 30
Warrenville
Auditorium 26

*AMC Northbrook Court 14
Northbrook
Auditorium 1

*AMC Randhurst 16
Mount Prospect
Auditorium 3

*AMC River East 21
Chicago
Auditorium 13

*AMC South Barrington 30
South Barrington
Auditorium 26

*AMC Streets of Woodfield 20
Schaumburg
Auditorium 1

*AMC Yorktown 17
Lombard
Auditorium 15

*Kerasotes City North
Chicago
Auditorium 2

*Regal Glen Stadium 10 (2 auditoriums equipped)
Glenview
Auditorium 1

*Regal Glen Stadium 10 (2 auditoriums equipped)
Glenview
Auditorium 2

# To check other states, please visit: http://ncam.wgbh.org/mopix/nowshowing.html